Category Archives: phd research

[it] The dark side of Google

[English abstract: I read the book The dark side of Google, about some problematic issues of Google. It is interesting, although I have some remarks. ] Ho letto The dark side of Google, cioè la versione liberamente scaricabile di Luci … Continue reading

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Signals and classifiers: Google ranking secrets

[Italian abstract: un importante sguardo su Google, dall'interno, e su come viene definito l'algoritmo di ranking. Sto scrivendo Ho scritto un'esposizione più completa in italiano è sul blog colletivo Beanbol] Very interesting article on the New York Times: Google Keeps … Continue reading

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Effective presentation

[Italian abstract: alcuni consigli per creare buone presentazioni, con links] From Maestrini per Caso, some hints for good presentation, with nice links. Among them, the video Hans Rosling – myths and stats, a wonderful presentation of statistics. Why do I … Continue reading

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Universal search, by Google

[it-abstract: Google ha modificato, in modo forse non troppo appariscente ma decisamente radicale, il concetto di ricerca, unendo i vari servizi di ricerca in un unico centro] Google 2.0: this are the words used by Danny Sullivan to talk about … Continue reading

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Paper on Web Tourism Communication

A paper I wrote with some collegues will be presented at the Research@EyeForTravel, Travel Distribution Europe 2007 Conference in London, the 23rd May. Lorenzo Cantoni, Marco Faré, Davide Bolchini, Alessandro Inversini, Fabiana Giulieri, University of Lugano, Switzerland, European Cities and … Continue reading

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Search, Ads & Apps

Search, Ads & Apps, according to Reuters, this seems to be the new Google tag line. Where is “Don’t be evil” or the thing on organizing world information? Danny Sullivan tries to answer. It seems that Microsoft will move his … Continue reading

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[it] Libro sull’Information Visualization

Riccardo Mazza, La rappresentazione grafica delle informazioni, Apogeonline.

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Usages analysis of website in 3D

Reading a post on search and 3D (not really what I was searching for), I found another Google Blogoscoped post, on 3D visualization of log files analysis. The analysis of a websites log files is a very important activity: it … Continue reading

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Human Computer Interaction in science fiction movies

An interesting paper dedicated to Human Computer Interaction in science fiction movies.

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The new Poliform website

The new website of Poliform, Italian furniture manufacturer, is online: www.poliform.it. The project started in December 2005. I was involved as webatelier.net program assistant. We did some analysis and wrote the information concept. After Poliform designed the layout and produced content … Continue reading

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1. Google, 2. Yahoo!, 3. Microsoft

ComScore and Nielsen//NetRatings numbers of February 2007 say that more than half of searcher are done on Google: Google: comScore 55.8% / Nielsen 48.1% Yahoo!: comScore 20.7% / Nielsen 28.1% Microsoft: comScore 9.6% / Nielsen 10.5% Ask is 4. for … Continue reading

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Folksonomies’ cons

Some time ago I blogged about a study on a taxonomy for tagging systems. A presentation by Emanuele Quintarelli (in his Box’s box on his blog) shows some deepenings on folksonomies properties. I’d like to focus on cons: lack of … Continue reading

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Tons of search engines

How many search engines do you know? Johnny, of the TSW blog recently added to my aggregator, suggests 400. First of all, what is a search engine? In my opinion, the definition that Johnny seems to prefere is a bit … Continue reading

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[it] "Voglio essere primo su Google" ha sempre meno senso

Spesso, parlando di web marketing, ci si sente dire: “Vorrei apparire per primo su Google”. Intanto, per quali keywords? Comunque sia, questa richiesta ha sempre meno senso: Google sta dando una spinta notevole alla ricerca personalizzata. Cosa significa? Significa che … Continue reading

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USI-COM: students are part of the institution

Yesterday, for the first time in his short history (AFAIK), the faculty Board of the School of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano was open to one student democratically chosen among all the students. I asked for this more than 5 … Continue reading

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